10 August,2016 07:32 AM IST | | Agencies
A day after Mumbai Congress decried the state government's decision to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 1942 freedom movement as “Quit India-2, state Congress also slammed the move stating a historical event cannot have a sequel like that of a film
A day after Mumbai Congress decried the state government's decision to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 1942 freedom movement as "Quit India-2", state Congress also slammed the move stating a historical event cannot have a "sequel" like that of a film.
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu and CM Devendra Fadnavis along with other BJP leaders at the launch of 'Quit India Movement 2'. Pic/Datta Kumbhar
"Does the Maharashtra government consider the Quit India movement a film of which it is making a sequel?" asked Sachin Sawant, spokesperson of state Congress, yesterday.
BJP and RSS are trying to dilute the historical importance of the movement, he said.
"Everyone knows and it is a part of history that Golwalkar (M S Golwalkar, the then RSS supremo) had opposed (it) when the Quit India movement was launched," Sawant said, alleging that now BJP and RSS were putting a new spin on the 1942 movement and lessening its importance.
A newspaper advertisement issued by the state government uses the catch phrase "Quit India-2", stating now it was time to get rid of social evils like illiteracy, alcoholism, etc.
Sawant said by connecting these unrelated issues with the historic occasion, the BJP-led state government was trying to manipulate the history of the freedom struggle.
